Starring: Demi Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Anne Bancroft, Jason Beghe, Daniel von Bargen Directed By: Ridley Scott Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Walt Disney Video Number of Items: 1 Picture Format: Letterbox Region Code: 1 Release Date: April 22, 1998 Running Time: 125 minutes Theatrical Release Date: August 22, 1997
Amazon.com: It seemed like a pretty good career move, and for the most part it was. Demi Moore will never top any rational list of great actresses, but as her career stalled in the mid-1990s she had enough internal fire and external physicality to be just right for her title role in G.I. Jane. Her character's name isn't Jane--it's Jordan O'Neil--but the fact that she lacks a penis makes her an immediate standout in her elite training squad of Navy SEALs. She's been recruited as the first female SEAL trainee through a series of backroom political maneuvers, and must prove her military staying power against formidable odds--not the least of which is the abuse of a tyrannical master chief (Viggo Mortensen) who puts her through hell to improve her chances of success. Within the limitations of a glossy star vehicle, director Ridley Scott manages to incorporate the women-in-military issue with considerable impact, and Moore--along with her conspicuous breast enhancements and that memorable head-shaving scene--jumps into the role with everything she's got. Not a great movie by any means, but definitely a rousing crowd pleaser, and it's worth watching just to hear Demi shout the words "Suck my ----!!" (rhymes with "chick"). --Jeff Shannon
Description: Demi Moore (DISCLOSURE, INDECENT PROPOSAL) is in top form in this action-packed hit! Moore stars as gutsy Lieutenant O'Neil, the first woman ever given the opportunity to earn a place in the armed forces most highly skilled combat unit -- the elite Navy SEALS! But the already brutal rigors of training camp turn into an unimaginable test of courage and determination once it becomes clear that no one -- powerful politicians, top military brass, or her male Navy SEAL teammates -- wants her to succeed! A critically acclaimed triumph directed by action hitmaker Ridley Scott (ALIEN, THELMA & LOUISE) -- you'll cheer for G.I. JANE as this brave soldier proves she belongs among the best of the best!
Demi's Ultimate performance If you follow Demi Moore, this is a must. She outdoes herself in the personification of O'neal, plus she's a real beauty and shows the best condition ever! Two thumbs up!!!
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Since when are movies supposed to be realistic? give me a break people- "This movie was a real disappointment. Laced with inaccurate facts and utterly unrealistic scenarios."- since when are movies supposed to be realistic or accurate. if you're the kind of person that bases how good a movie is on how realistic it is then you've gotta be a very dull person. how do you even know the filmmakers wanted it to be realistic? it was a great movie with a great story, it doesn't matter that it's not realistic. if they start to make only realistic movies i'm gonna shoot myself, because movies ARE NOT supposed to be realistic. if you want something real go watch a frickin biography! this is a good movie with a good story and great action scenes.
Raises More Questions Than It Answers I can't help but be dumbfounded when I think the director of such excellent thought provoking films as Alien, Blade Runner & Thelma & Louise directed this trite piece of PC girl power. Whether or not women belong in front line combat or special forces is an extremely important issue and deserves a far more serious consideration than what is presented in this movie. G.I. Jane spoonfeeds simplistic answers to complicated questions. I wonder if the moviemakers even agree with the moral message of thier own movie.
The film lives and dies on Demi Moore's performance and she is completely wrong for the role. Demi Moore is just simply not believable as a Navy SEAL trainee who lasts longer than a few days. She is 5'5 and a slender bodytype. I don't care how tough or buff a person is, a person that small, male or female would not be able to handle the hardest training of any military in the world. Ask yourself. Do you really want someone as small as Moore protecting you and yours? In the special forces doing the dirtiest of the dirty work? Me neither. A bigger woman would at least have been more credible as strong enough. Lucy Lawless & Sigourney Weaver come to mind.
The movie seems to be a compendium of modern military movie stereotypes and lazy scriptwriting. The politicians are slimy and the soldiers are hateful, stupid and cruel. How not original. Moore's characterization of Lt. O'Neill lacks any subtlty or nuance. She has no inner monologue besides a constant "be tough" mantra. We are oblidged to root for Moore's character not out of sympathy or understanding but from a filmgoer's obligation to root for the hero-protagonist vs. the bad guys.
Important questions are raised but real discussion is avoided in favor of Moore amping up her tuff-guy-with-[...] response to everything. The ending, as many other reviewers have noted, is contrived and silly. I have a hard time seeing the military putting a whole team of untested trainees in a real special OPs situation. In the end, Ridley Scott seems oddly content to make an ordinary PC era Hollywood patriotic music and bullets movie.
Not quite the next evolution Definitely one of Ridley Scott's lesser moments, GI Jane's main problem is that the script takes an interesting, somewhat possible scenario and quickly hurries it towards absurdity. The first hour of GI Jane is absolutely riveting, as Demi Moore's character is selected to be a trial subject for a "gender-blind" Navy. Naturally, sexist politicians and Naval higher-ups want to see her fail, so Navy SEAL (Sea, Air, Land) Combined Recon Team (CRT) is chosen as her trial by fire. It's all smooth as silk in Scott's hand, and a pre-Lord Of The Rings Viggo Mortensen is electric as the over-the-top Command Master Chief Urgayle, tasked with making commandos out of the maggots. Trevor Jones' bombastic chanting and horns borrows a bit too heavily from the best bits of Hans Zimmer's score for Crimson Tide (another Navy action-drama, ironically directed by Ridley's brother, Tony Scott). Jones' music tends to be excessive and overwhelming during the action scenes, though it's quite effective when it goes for quick, sudden orchestral hits of chanting between scene changes.
The problem with GI Jane is its simplistic and heavy-handed way of asking the film's "big questions," which seem like they were written so that even the dumbest person in the audience will quickly get the point. Additionally, halfway through the film there's a sudden shift in tone, and the film rapidly becomes a really dumb action flick in the vein of Shooter or The Rock. By the time this supposedly stealthy and precise team of SEALs starts blowing up half of the Libyan coast, you can't help but wonder what happened to that interesting movie you were watching. Thankfully, the film ends before the "you can be my wingman/teammate any day, Demi! Top Gun-motifs can fully sink the film faster than the Titanic.
Still, Demi does a bang-up job getting into shape and stomping around witht the boys. Aragorn is, as said before, delightfully excessive, and Jim Caviezel, prior to playing Jesus for Mel Gibson, was a wacky yet lovable Navy SEAL. Some of the other supporting performances are just a bit awkward, however. Naturally, being a Ridley Scott picture, everything is exquisitely shot.
GI Jane could have been a really thought-provoking film, but neither screenwriters David Twohy and Danielle Alexandra or the producers are willing to risk that kind of intelligence. As a result, the film is a smart-dumb flick like Michael Bay's The Rock: it's smart enough to draw you in and keep you immersed, but once it ends, any intelligent analysis will just make your brain hurt.
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